Fuller Village Invites the Community to A Soldier’s Story: an Irishman on the Western Front with University of Massachusetts Boston Professor Tom O’Grady on Thursday, March 12th at 2:00pm in the Function Room at 1372 Brush Hill Rd., Milton.

More than 200,000 Irishmen served in the British Expeditionary Force during The Great War of 1914-18 (World War I).  This talk will focus on Prof. Thomas O’Grady’s experience of tracing across “the Western Front” of France and Belgium some of the boot steps of his Irish-born grandfather, Private William O’Grady of the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment.  Prof. O’Grady will also introduce the broader experience of Irishmen in the British Army by way of the poetry of Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the prose of Rifleman Patrick MacGill of the London Irish Rifles.  Thomas O’Grady is Director of the Irish Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  He lives in Milton.